The Accident Man

Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's THE ACCIDENT MAN surprises the reader at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident. But then Carver is hired to carry out a job below a bridge in Paris. The date is August 31, 1997. Set up, betrayed, pursued by the very forces that hired him, Carver must execute his most daring feat yet.

A thriller of the grandest sort, THE ACCIDENT MAN races above and below the streets of Paris, across Europe, and by storms at sea. It is also a startling introduction to a hero engaged in the act of "moral violence." With the dissolution of world powers, with everything and anything for sale, how does one justify death? Samuel Carver-a clouded man of determined action-will come to understand the prices to be paid.

You have never met a hero quite like Samuel Carver. You will never forget him.